Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 25, 1818
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 93
Additional Source Text:
The donor is described as "of Natchez."
Notes:
Tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in East Tennessee. Long esteemed by architects and builders for its pinkish-gray color and the ease with which it is polished, this stone has been used in the construction of numerous notable buildings and monuments throughout the United States and Canada, including the National Gallery of Art and the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the Minnesota State Capitol, as well as parts of the U.S. Capitol, Grand Central Terminal in New York, and Union Station in Toronto.
Nathaniel Ware (1780 or 1789-1853) was an attorney and aide to the Mississippi territorial governor. He moved from Natchez to Philadelphia in 1819 to obtain medical care at Pennsylvania Hospital for his wife, Sarah Percy Ellis, who suffered from post-partum depression. He later returned to Natchez and became a prominent banker. He was the father of Southern writers Eleanor Percy (Ware) Lee and Catherine Anne (Ware) Warfield. See Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (New York, 1994).
